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mulligans

mulligans is the plural of mulligan.

Meaning of mulligan

Noun

mulligan (countable and uncountable, plural mulligans)

  1. An unpenalized chance to re-take a stroke that went awry.
    • If you lose your drive in the water, take a mulligan and try again.
  2. (collectible card games) An opportunity (sometimes penalized) for a player to reshuffle their cards and draw a new initial hand at the beginning of a game.
    • Pokemon has a mulligan rule: if you have no Pokemon in your opening hand, you show it to your opponent and redraw. You may also take a mulligan, I believe, if your opening hand has no basic power cards.2009 February 17, LSJ, “Re: Why doesn't VTES have a mulligan rule?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), message-ID <soDml.10826$hc1.10451@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com>
  3. (broadly) A second chance.
    • Don't do poorly in your first interview; you won't get a mulligan.

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Proper noun capitalized: Mulligans

Mulligans

  1. (plural) plural of Mulligan

Questions about mulligans

What is mulligans the plural of?
Mulligans is the plural of mulligan.
What part of speech is mulligans?
Mulligans is a proper noun.

Words near mulligans in the dictionary

  1. mulligan
  2. mulligan car
  3. mulligan cars
  4. mulligan stew
  5. mulligan stews
  6. mulligans
  7. mulligatawnee
  8. mulligatawnies
  9. mulligatawny
  10. mulligrubs
  11. Mullikin

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